Vilnius, April 4 Lithuania’s ministers of foreign affairs and national defence Thursday expressed the country’s support to NATO’s open door policy. “We will try to strengthen the opportunities for the current candidate countries to join the alliance until the NATO Summit which will be taking place in September in the UK,” Xinhua quoted Foreign Minister […]
Abuja, April 4 More than 30 insurgents were killed in an early morning raid by military operatives in Nigeria’s north central Nasarawa state, witnesses said Thursday. Ten bodies of suspected insurgents littered Mararaban Giza, a community in Keana local government area of the northern state, after an invasion by security operatives deployed to restore normalcy […]
San Juan, April 4 A Dominican citizen was arrested Thursday after 1,400 kg of cocaine he was transporting in a 40-foot boat was seized from him, police said. Leonardo Perez Meson was arrested after his boat ran aground on the seashore in the southern town of Patillas, the police said in a statement. An anonymous […]
Freetown, April 4 (IANS) Six unidentified people were killed in Sierra Leone when a fuel tanker collided with a truck, a leading local daily reported Thursday. The six people were reported to have met their death in an inferno caused by an explosion when a fuel tanker loaded with 23,000 litres of petrol collided with a […]
Washington, April 4 US Army soldier Ivan Lopez, who had been deployed in Iraq, has been identified as the attacker who killed three people and wounded 16 others before killing himself in a rampage at the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas. US Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Homeland […]
Beirut, April 4 The number of registered refugees in Lebanon from war-torn Syria has crossed the mark of one million, the UN and Lebanon said Thursday. The number represents “a devastating milestone worsened by rapidly depleting resources and a host community stretched to a breaking point,” Xinhua quoted the Lebanese ministry of social affairs and […]
Suva, April 3 (IANS) Fiji Thursday launched its constitution in Braille. This will enable visually impaired people to read and understand the content of the Fiji’s 2013 Constitution, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said. All Fijians must have access to a copy of the constitution, which does not define and divide people by ethnicity, Xinhua reported citing […]
Islamabad, April 3 Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped Thursday when a blast hit a bridge in Islamabad after his convoy had barely crossed it, police said. The blast at Faizabad bridge occurred early Thursday when Musharraf was en-route to his farmhouse in Chak Shahzad from the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) in […]
Washington, April 3 (IANS) Amid various health benefit studies on chocolate that inspire you to munch another one, research reveals that a key ingredient in chocolate might help lose weight and lower type-2 diabetes risk. The researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University added the flavanol named oligomeric procyanidins (PCs) found in cocoa – the […]
As part of its approaching 200th Westpac has recently announced the launch of the single largest private education scholarship program in Australia’s history, the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation.anniversary year in 2017,The Westpac Group Chairman, Mr Lindsay Maxsted, Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Gail Kelly, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Julie Bishop MP, have launched the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation earlier […]